Attenuation coefficient ↩

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created: 2021-10-25 20:44:07
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For waves that get attenuated while propagating in a medium due to a complex refractive index, the decay of the intensity of the wave is easily given by , the attenuation coefficient:

Where is the complex part of the refractive index.

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